Euro Roundup: Park's double clinches Man United win over Wolves

LONDON — Park Ji-sung scored during stoppage time for his second goal of the game and Manchester United beat Wolverhampton 2-1 on Saturday for its third consecutive Premier League victory.

It was midfielder Park's first goals of the league season. The South Korean's opener against American goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann was canceled out by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake in the 66th minute.

United is now two points behind Chelsea ahead of the leaders' match against Liverpool on Sunday.

Tottenham lost 4-2 at Bolton, failing to build on Tuesday's impressive 3-1 victory against Inter Milan.

Also Saturday, Blackburn beat Wigan 2-1, Sunderland defeated Stoke 2-0 and Aston Villa was held 1-1 at Fulham. There were 2-2 draws between Birmingham and West Ham, and Blackpool and Everton.

Alex Ferguson's 24th anniversary as United manager started badly when Owen Hargreaves limped off just five minutes into his first start in more than two years with an apparent hamstring injury.

The gloom was lifted before halftime when Darren Fletcher cut in from the left before splitting the Wolves defense with a pass that allowed Park to put United ahead.

Ebanks-Blake responded with a drive through the legs of goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, tying it 1.

Park restored United's lead in the third minute of stoppage time, cutting inside the penalty area from the right wing and driving his shot past Hahnemann at the near post.

Ferguson said several players were feeling ill after a midweek Champions League trip to Turkey.

At Bolton, Kevin Davies had two goals and Gretar Rafn Steinsson and Martin Petrov also scored, delighting the home crowd.

Alan Hutton and Roman Pavlyuchenko scored for Tottenham, cutting the deficit to 3-2, but substitute Petrov responded injury time as Gareth Bale failed to reproduce the impressive form he showed against Inter.

West Ham remains rooted to the bottom of the standings — two behind Wolverhampton.

The Hammers built a 2-0 lead at Birmingham, courtesy of Frederic Piquionne and Valon Behrami. But Cameron Jerome quickly cut the lead in half and Liam Ridgewell equalized.

Aston Villa is only two points clear of the bottom three after being denied a victory at Fulham by Houston-born Norway defender Brede Hangeland's stoppage time equalizer against American goalkeeper Brad Friedel. Marc Albrighton had given Villa the lead in the 42nd.

Blackpool twice threw away the lead within moments of scoring against Everton's U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard.

Neil Eardley celebrated his 22nd birthday by scoring on a free kick after 10 minutes, but Tim Cahill leveled just three minutes later with a powerful header.

MADRID — Manuel Pellegrini's coaching tenure at Malaga got off to a rocky start with a 1-0 defeat at Espanyol in the Spanish league on Saturday.

While Pellegrini — hired only on Thursday — was not on the sidelines, B team coach Rafael Gil couldn't keep Malaga's winless streak from stretching to six league games when Javi Marquez scored 60 seconds into the match with a shot from nearly 35 meters (yard) out.

Espanyol improved to 5-0 this season at its Cornella-El Prat Stadium to move into fourth with 18 points. Malaga stayed 18th with seven points.

Xabi Prieto weighted a perfectly lofted pass into the area for Llorente in the seventh minute and the Basque striker beat goalkeeper Antonio Rodriguez.

Sociedad's third win in four games lifted it to 16 points. Santander stayed on 10 points.

Real Madrid leads with 23 points, Barcelona is second with 22 and Villarreal has 20.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — Philipp Lahm scored to salvage a 3-3 draw for struggling Bayern Munich against last-place Borussia Moenchengladbach in the Bundesliga, and Eintracht Frankfurt climbed to third with a 3-1 win over Wolfsburg.

Bayern was up 2-1 at halftime despite striking the framework three times, including a penalty by Bastian Schweinsteiger just before the break. Gladbach scored two goals within four minutes to take the lead, but Lahm slotted in the equalizer in the 84th minute.

Fanis Gekas scored twice for Frankfurt, which is undefeated in the last six games and has 19 points

With Mainz and Hoffenheim both losing, Bayern missed a chance to jump up the standings. Bayern is ninth in the league with 16 points from 11 rounds.

Second-place Mainz fell 1-0 at Freiburg for its fourth loss in five games, including the German Cup defeat at second division Alemannia Aachen.

Hoffenheim is fourth with 18 points after losing 2-1 at fifth-place Hamburg. Nuremberg also has 18 points after a 3-1 win at home over Cologne.
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